Karl Marx — Philosophical Quotes

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Karl Marx Quotes

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Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist

Philosophical

“The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.”

Firsts Facts Individual

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Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist

Philosophical

“Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.”

Men Alive Landscape

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Philosophical

“All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.”

Humans Human Nature

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Philosophical

“The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker.”

Powerful Work

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Philosophical

“While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.”

Gone Philosophical Mad

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Philosophical

“A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.”

Men Children

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Philosophical

“The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity .”

Doe Economic

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Philosophical

“Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.”

Simple Gold Commodity

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Philosophical

“Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)”

Practice Connections July

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Philosophical

“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe.”

Needs Bourgeoisie Communist Manifesto

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Philosophical

“With disdain I will throw my gauntlet full in the fact of the world and see the collapse of this pygmy giant. Then will I wander god-like and victorious through the ruins of the world. And giving my words an active force, I will feel equal to the Creator.”

Giving Facts Atheism

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Philosophical

“The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London.”

Men Hate Struggle

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